This Sunday - Mt. St. Helens.

[Roadstergal]

I'm getting my writeups together, finally. :p

http://www.roadstergal.info/6_26_05/

[Kerry]

Great photos and write-up!  

You can sure take a lot of pictures when you ride shotgun, eh?  

If you haven't seen it, a nice motorcycle-based companion article to your page is "The Monster: Riding the Other Side of Mount St. Helens" -- on page 48 of the July 2005 issue of rider magazine.

[john]

I'm not knocking you in any way, but for me cars offer no excitement since I started riding sportbikes.

...but I'd love to drive a car with a rotary engine just once to see what it's like.  Wankle proved he was right Doesn't GM feel stupid now...

[Roadstergal]

Ja, I did sell the cars, and I find the bike track days to be far more exhilirating than the car days.  But St. Helens - well, it's all twists, all the time, barely a straight to be seen - every twist you can think of, from hairpins to decreasing radii to corkscrews to switchbacks - and a well-set-up Miata can just plain take it faster than a well-set-up bike.  We've overtaken sportbike groups when we've gone up there in the past.  I don't miss my Miata enough to actually have kept it, but I did wish it could spontaneously appear for that one drive and then disappear again.

[davipu]

it's all in the rider.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=7057BBB0-02B8-415E-9C54-EBB656FC0294&kw=25

[RVertigo]

it's all in the rider.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=7057BBB0-02B8-415E-9C54-EBB656FC0294&kw=25

Pretty damn close...
10x less $$...  I think it's an easy choice.